The White House in Washington, DC, and the Washington Monument are pictured on April 7, 2011. agreement on a number, no agreement on the policy issues," after 90 minutes in the Oval Office with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. AFP Photo/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

Rubio lays out proposal to 'modernize' immigration - CNN Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is again floating his own reform plan; he said in an interview this weekend that it "would include a permanent residency provision and a route to citizenship for those undocumented immigrants currently in the United States," but that it was "not blanket amnesty."

How unions went from border hawks to immigration doves - Talking Points Memo On the evolution of organized labor's stance on immigration: The 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union is a leading champion of comprehensive reform. Its position is a far cry from the onetime hardline stance of the early United Farm Workers of America, which viewed illegal immigration as a source of scab labor.

NC DMV stops issuing licenses to legal immigrants - NBC North Carolina has joined other states in refusing to grant driver's licenses to young undocumented immigrants who obtain temporary legal status through deferred action, a federal program that lets them live and work legally in the U.S. for two years. The state recently stopped issuing licenses to them.

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